The subject is so sensitive that the title seem somewhat provocative, but I'll try anyway because our country has good relations with the two parties.
start with the obvious sometimes forgotten: Israel is a state born of victories on the battlefield, and it is not very different in this respect from others if it is that these wars are relatively recent and that the current situation is more akin to a state of armistice that real peace. The France of today is born of victories of the revolutionary army in 1789 and real peace with Nazi Germany defeated and devastated.
International law is a good idea when the protagonists are willing to apply it, otherwise it is the law of the jungle applies. Palestinian Territories (Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem) are subject to the law of their winnings with anyone who intends to share power he has from his military victories. Israel has with the rest of the world relations which are a mix of autism and paranoia that is to never deviate from its policy whatever the price, and the Palestinians know that the Arab countries to limit their support of crocodile tears, this problem does is not really theirs.
Well, it can last long enough, especially taking into account the small size of territories (Israel and Palestine) that make it impossible to land even the sanctuary for the militarily stronger party. So why the convoy? The goal was probably one stone two shots: a victory in the highly unlikely event or Israel would let go, a drama useful in cases where the arrest more likely to go wrong because of the size of the convoy. This is ultimately what happened. The quasi-diplomatic relations with Turkey will always be better than nothing.
Returning to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and compare this to the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The German occupation was brutal and total military from policing and symbols: repeated execution of hostages, death sentence for breach of curfew or event (eg, 1 "14 July" just after the defeat), German flags on all Paris, including the monuments - including the National Assembly. It was brutal economically with exorbitant per diems, the fixing of exchange rates confiscatory and transfers of food for the army of occupation can actually feed a part of Germany.
The Israeli occupation is different on these two points: the first, despite the apparent brutality of the democratic state sets a limit to this violence (I understand that some may challenge this point), the second can be summarized in saying there is not much to take in Palestine.
The German occupation was not during an uprising mass of the French people, active resistance is limited to a very small number of people, which does not mean it was insignificant or useless to the contrary. The German side, despite the contempt resulted in the defeat of 1940, 2 sentiments coexisted; one hand, the pride of having landed a worthy opponent (see 1914-1918) and secondly the idea that war won it's time to separate people under others. Luckily, no offense to some, we were on the right side in the geographic axis East-West, he just has to see how our Polish friends they were treated during the same period (and the fate of Warsaw with the active connivance of Stalin ...).
Again, the situation is reversed: the Israeli occupation - because it certainly was much longer than the German occupation, had the general Palestinian uprisings (2 intifadas) making it impossible to continue an occupation conventional military and its transformation into a total blockade. I do not know exactly what Israeli officials believe the Palestinians, but I fear they are close to categorize much lower than theirs, and finally reach the classification of our former winners of the Slav peoples.
In summary, the cycle of violence of this occupation / blockade seems to have all the fuel needed to continue still quite a few decades. We do not see them as liberators might have Palestinian external. The only way would probably be wise for them collaboration and renunciation of violence to try to regain the lost rights democratically, just like blacks in South Africa, but it's probably too early. In fifty years, perhaps an Israeli prime minister Palestinian origin? This does not surprise me more than that.
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